On a February 2021 episode of her podcast Empty Inside, the iCarly alum instructed visitor Anna Faris that she determined to cease appearing just a few years again and is now targeted on alternatives in writing and directing, along with internet hosting the podcast.
“My expertise with appearing is, I am so ashamed of the components I’ve executed prior to now,” revealed Jennette, who detailed her expertise in her 2022 memoir I am Glad My Mother Died. “I resent my profession in quite a lot of methods. I really feel so unfulfilled by the roles that I performed and felt prefer it was probably the most tacky, embarrassing. I did the exhibits that I used to be on from like 13 to 21, and by 15, I used to be already embarrassed. My buddies at 15, they are not like, ‘Oh, cool, you are on this Nickelodeon present.’ It was embarrassing.”
Although she hasn’t completely written off a second act. “I do really feel like solely via writing the e-book have I gotten to a spot the place I feel there is perhaps a approach of exploring appearing that does not carry that baggage that I carried with me for thus lengthy,” she instructed E! Information in October 2022. “Possibly if I write one thing for myself. I feel that’d actually be possibly one of many solely methods I may sort of attempt exploring it once more.”
